Mercedes’s “Vision Van”, complete with drones and robot arms
Category: Articles and papers
How susceptible jobs are to computerisation. Michael Osborne
Unlocking the Potential of Technology – WEF Report
via New Vision for Education – Unlocking the Potential of Technology
To thrive in a rapidly evolving, technology-mediated world, students must not only possess strong skills in areas such as language arts, mathematics and science, but they must also be adept at skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, persistence, collaboration and curiosity.
All too often, however, students in many countries are not attaining these skills. In this context, the World Economic Forum has taken on a multi-year initiative, New Vision for Education, to examine the pressing issue of skills gaps and explore ways to address these gaps through technology.
Robots and tax: paying the freight
via Robots and tax: paying the freight – InnovationsAus.com
The Future of Work/ Automation debate rumbles on. UBI seems to be back in the news, and even luminaries such as Bill Gates are positing there has to be some fiscal redistribution. CSIRO’s Data61 chief executive Adrian Turner presents the counter-argument. Well, actually, I’m not sure the article does that but Turner sees the displacement of jobs as inevitable, sector by sector and doesn’t agree with the idea of a robot tax, rather that society focus on re-skilling people out of disrupted industries into newly created jobs.
Ernst & Young Removes Degree Classification From Entry Criteria As There’s ‘No Evidence’ University Equals Success
Aussie startup: Ancient sites in VR
Archaeology becomes easier in VR, where you can walk around ancient buildings as if they were still there. Lithodomos VR has raised $900,000 in Australian dollars ($679,000 U.S.) in a seed funding round.
“Have you ever stood in front of historic ruins, the Parthenon for example, and closed your eyes, imagining what the site before you would have looked like centuries ago? Thanks to virtual reality, seeing ruins as they looked in their heyday is both possible and easy” founder Simon Young recently told the Smithsonian Newsletter during an interview.
So, I have shelled out the $2.99 for the Ancient Jerusalem App and shall report back…
Skills for the future (Alison E Berman)
via No Job Is Safe, But These Skills Will Always Be Valued in the Workplace
If you’d asked farmers a few hundred years ago what skills their kids would need to thrive, it wouldn’t have taken long to answer. They’d need to know how to milk a cow or plant a field. General skills for a single profession that only changed slowly—and this is how it was for most humans through history.
But in the last few centuries? Not so much.
Finland recently shifted its national curriculum to a new model called the “phenomenon-based” approach. By 2020, the country will replace traditional classroom subjects with a topical approach highlighting the four Cs—communication, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration.
These four skills “are central to working in teams, and a reflection of the ‘hyperconnected’ world we live in today,” Singularity Hub editor-in-chief David Hill recently wrote.
